The ten year anniversary of Interstellar is fast approaching, and Matthew McConaughey has opened up on how it changed him.
Matthew starred in the smash-hit film as a trained NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper
The Christopher Nolan film focuses on Cooper's trip into space for an interstellar trip, leaving his two children Tom and Murphy behind.
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Interstellar received a huge amount of praise from critics and audience members alike - with the ending, in particular, blowing viewers away after learning the true ending was finally explained - and currently sits at 73 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.
McConaughey has appeared on a podcast, Modern Wisdom, and has opened up about how the role of a lifetime has impacted him a decade on.
He also shared how he turned down an almost $15 million role.
"I have a lot of people tell me it’s their favourite movie of all time, and people tell me they went to see it four times, as there’s a lot to take in," the Dallas Buyers Club star said.
When asked how it changed him, he paused to consider before answering: "The main thing was on the human side of it… for me personally, I was like, oh you don’t leave your kids to go do what your dream is."
"Then when I changed what your dream is to go do what you’re meant to do, what you were born to do, that you have an ability to do like nobody else…. Then maybe you do leave your kid.” he continues, gesturing as if balancing things up.
He recalled one scene from the film in particular: "That argument, and that leaving, which is that countdown. That’s the scene I’m remembering, is the price you pay, the cost, the consequence of chasing down something.
"My initial thought was “oh, Cooper’s being selfish in the wrong way”, I don’t think you can easily say that. There’s a major consequence with that."
Matthew revealed how the film impacted the decisions he made in fatherhood: "I’ve got three kids, doing my favourite a job that I think I was born to do."
"I find an extreme and endless purpose in parenting, but I’m dabbling in different versions of leadership, in the betterment maybe of more people...." he explained how the temptation to take things worldwide and reach more people is real.
"It would come at the consequence of being there and being present for my three children, my wife, my family. I haven’t found anything that I think is worth that sacrifice, and my argument with myself there is that the best exports we can have, if we do it well, is our children.
"There’s no better export you can put out. Hopefully having some healthy children, who see the world in the right way, and hopefully they love the right things."
He added: "That’s my lineage, I’m giving them a palette to paint from and so they choose the right colours. I have friends that have sacrificed that, who have been very successful."
Matthew recalled what his wife, Camila Alves, proposed when they decided they were going to have children: "She had one condition which was 'if you go, we go'.
"We’ve done that, we have a 16 year old, a 14 year old and an 11 year old. No doubt that has a major contribution to how strong our family is. I think our family is very strong. They picked up and came with."
Topics: Film, TV and Film, Matthew McConaughey
Jen Thomas